Right now, energy companies are cutting and burning our Southeastern forests to make electricity in power plants. Burning trees for electricity creates more carbon pollution than coal, gas and oil. It's a dirty process that destroys our forests.

Sunday September 1, 2013, 12:24 pm
S & N, thanks, my friend. It takes a long time to grow a forest, many lifetimes, they need to think about that before cutting down the trees; but I realize they don't care, but we do.

Sunday September 1, 2013, 1:35 pm
Thanks, Cher! Signed and noted. We, as a species, are seriously defective. We are unable to overcome behavior that is destroying both our world and our ability to live on it.

Sunday September 1, 2013, 4:46 pm
The devastation big companies cause to the waters and the ground with oil spills and reckless digging is far outweighed by the greenhouse effect promoted by a fervent belief in burning things. It didn't help Salem, Massachusetts, and it certainly won't help our planet, when then sun is blocked out by a dense cloud of black smog that prevents any light from reaching the ground.

But perhaps that's what the energy companies want. Then they can announce their new invention--the waterlight. It burns up the oceans, which no one needs anyway, in order to produce profits, I mean power, for Big Business, I mean, for lights.

Sunday September 1, 2013, 7:38 pm
Noted and signed. Thanks, Cher. Forests need to be managed so they are healthy and not tinder boxes. These companies are probably clearcutting, using the wood to make energy, when solar is so much more available. Time to go solar!

Monday September 2, 2013, 8:48 am
None of us should have to sign any more of these. There is no excuse for anyone or any company acting like barbarians. It's time for zero tolerance and maximum sentences. Maybe some Old Testament "Eye for an Eye" actions too? I am fed the H&$# up aren't you?

Friday September 6, 2013, 11:17 pm
Our precious forests are abused again and again. Just recently there was a fire that destroyed so much of our foresta, but not due to abuse by man. Trees/forests offer the fresh air we so desperately need for survival. So it is not only the beauty of the forest, but the benefits to our natural plant life that we must consider. Re-examine the process. Is it necessary to destroy at the whim of one team/group for self advancement in profit. What other options were considered?

Saturday September 7, 2013, 1:58 pm
Gladly signed. We need to stop cutting down trees and begin efforts to reforest the planet - which means planting and caring for hundreds of millions of new trees... the trees absorb carbon and release oxygen - they are the lungs of the Earth.

Sunday September 8, 2013, 3:17 am
Noted !! Signed and commented !! Just how STUPID can they be ? We need MORE TREES, not less !!! Well said Alex Keir ....... why is is so hard for those responsible to understand that ???